A.D. 
1302 The king of Norway forbids every one except Norwegian mer- 
chants to trade with Iceland. 
The Icelanders protest against having Norwegian “lawmen®. 
1306 Althingi decides that the people shall resist the king's unjust 
demands. 
1380 Iceland with Norway comes under Danish rule. 
1402 The Black Death. 
1433 The Swede, Jén Gerreksson, probably the most vicious of all 
the worthless foreign bishops Iceland had in those days, cap- 
tured by two native chiefs, tied in a sack and drowned in the 
river Briard near Skalholt. 
1484 Jén Arason b. 
1524 J6n Arason becomes bishop of the northern diocese of Iceland. 
1530 Bishop Jén Arason puts up a printing press. 
1534 The first book printed in Iceland. 
1540 Oddur Gottskélksson publishes the New Testament in Icelandic. 
1548 Bishop Jén Arason takes decisive steps to defend the Catholic 
religion and the freedom of the country. Civil war. 
Overthrow of the Catholic party. Bishop Jén Arason and his 
sons, Bjorn and Ari, beheaded at Skalholt (Nov. 7.). 
The Lutheran bishop, Gudbrandur Thorldksson, publishes the 
first bible in Iceland. 
Danish Trade Monopoly introduced. 
Hallgrimur Pétursson, the great poet, author of the Passion 
Hymns, b. 
1627 Algerian pirates make raids on the coasts of Iceland. 
1662 Absolutism established in Iceland. Oath of allegiance sworn to 
king Frederick III. 
Hallgrimur Pétursson d. 
Burning for witchcraft abolished by law. 
Arni Magniisson and P4ll Vidalin take census. 
Skili Magnisson causes different factories to be built at Reykjavik. 
First Icelandic periodical published (a monthly). 
Volcanic eruption of Laki, the most terrible and destructive 
eruption in the history of Iceland. 
1787 Trade Monopoly abolished. 
1794 Skili Magniisson d. 
1798 Althingi held for the last time at Thingvellir, where if had met 
svery vear since A. D. 930.